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Brazilian lyricist and novelist 1947Related quotes
Haruki Murakami book South of the Border, West of the Sun
Source: South of the Border, West of the Sun
Kenneth Minogue (1930–2013) Australian political theorist
Source: Politics: A Very Short Introduction, Chapter 1
Context: In a despotic government, the ultimate principle of order issues from the inclinations of the despot himself. Yet despotism is not a system in which justice is entirely meaningless: it has generally prevailed in highly traditional societies where custom is king and the prevailing terms of justice are accepted as part of the natural order of things. Each person fits into a divinely recognized scheme. Dynasties rise and fall according to what the Chinese used to call 'the mandate of heaven', but life for the peasant changes little. Everything depends on the wisdom of the ruler.
“Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby
Source: The Great Gatsby
“It’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan (1963), A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall
“Into every sunny life a little rain must fall.”
Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation
Source: Prozac Nation
Enya (1961) Irish singer, songwriter, and musician
Song lyrics, Amarantine (2005)
“Wisdom sits alone
Topmost in Heaven.”
Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806–1867) American magazine writer, editor, and publisher
The Scholar of Thibet.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
“Falling tears in my heart,
Falling rain on the town.
Why this long ache,
A knife in my heart.”
Paul Verlaine (1844–1896) French poet
Il pleure dans mon cœur
Comme il pleut sur la ville.
Quelle est cette langueur
Qui pénètre mon cœur?
"Il pleur dans mon cœur" line 1, from Romances sans paroles (1874); Sorrell p. 69
Source: One Hundred and One Poems by Paul Verlaine: A Bilingual Edition